TY - BOOK AU - Dorothy Porter AU - Roy Porter TI - Doctors, Politics and Society: Historical Essays T2 - Clio Medica SN - 9789004418332 AV - R145 U1 - 610.9 23 PY - 1993/// CY - Leiden; , Boston PB - Brill | Rodopi KW - Medical policy KW - History KW - Medicine N1 - Preliminary Material --; Acknowledgements; Dorothy Porter and Roy Porter --; Notes on Contributors; Dorothy Porter and Roy Porter --; Introduction; Dorothy Porter and Roy Porter --; Bentham's Utilitarianism and the Provision of Medical Care; Janet Semple --; Southwood Smith: The Intellectual Sources of Public Service; R. K. Webb --; Lyon Playfair and the Idea of Progress: Science and Medicine in Victorian Parliamentary Politics; Anne Hardy --; Désiré Magloire Bourneville and French Anticlericalism during the Third Republic; Bernard Brais --; The Demographic Argument in Soviet Debates over the Legalization of Abortion in the 1920s; Susan Gross Solomon --; Heinrich Zeiss, Hygiene and the Holocaust; Paul Weindling --; The Sick Poor and the State: Arthur Newsholme on Poverty, Disease and Responsibility; John M. Eyler --; The Metamorphosis of Dawson of Penn; Charles Webster --; Christopher Addison: a Realist in Pursuit of Dreams; Frank Honigsbaum --; John Ryle: Doctor of Revolution?; Dorothy Porter --; Doing History, Making Revolution: the Aspirations of Henry E. Sigerist and George Rosen; Elizabeth Fee and Edward T. Morman --; Back Matter; Dorothy Porter and Roy Porter N2 - The great British reformer Jeremy Bentham wrote that 'the art of legislation is but the art of healing practised upon a large scale'. He added that 'It is the common endeavour of both to relieve men from the miseries of life. But the physician relieves them one by one: the legislator by millions at a time'. Bentham raised the question of the interplay of medicine with politics. It forms an important topic with powerful contemporary overtones. This volume, containing eleven essays plus a lengthy introduction, seeks to explore it historically. It takes a long perspective, covering the last two centuries and also an international viewpoint, examining Britain in detail but also containing contributions dealing with the United States, Germany, Russia and France UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004418332 ER -